png problem with tar on 8.x

[Albert Shih]

 Le 15/05/2013 ? 00:54:33+0200, Rodrigo OSORIO a écrit
> On 05/14/13 23:30, Albert Shih wrote:
> > Hi everyone
> >
> > Just a report for a bug on 8.x about png ports
> >
> >
> > --->  Upgrading 'png-1.5.14' to 'png-1.5.15' (graphics/png)
> > --->  Building '/usr/ports/graphics/png'
> > ===>  Cleaning for png-1.5.15
> > ===>  Found saved configuration for png-1.4.1_1
> > ===> Fetching all distfiles required by png-1.5.15 for building
> > ===>  Extracting for png-1.5.15
> > => SHA256 Checksum OK for libpng-1.5.15.tar.xz.
> > tar: Unrecognized archive format
> > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.
> > *** Error code 1
> >
> > it's « normal » because xz is not supported with tar from FreeBSD 8.x
> >
> > Regards.
> >
> > JAS
> >
> Hi,
> 
> I'm pretty sure your problem is connected with the fact that
> according with manpages, in 8.X, the tar tool ignores the lzma
> compression format (.xz), probably introduced during an upgrade
> between 9.0 and 9.1.

Yes I'm sure, that's why I use « it's normal ». Because I try manually
(change USE_XZ -> USE_GZIP, change distinfo file) and everything works. 
and that's why I also use « Just a report » 

> 
> You should notify that to the port maintainer to introduce a bypass
> for the FreeBSD 8.x versions.

OK, I'm going to do that. 

Regards.

JAS
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